10Synonyms found for poll

Word Origin & History

poll late 13c., polle "hair of the head," from M.L.G. or M.Du. pol "head, top." Meaning "collection of votes" is first recorded 1620s, from notion of "counting heads;" meaning "survey of public opinion" is first recorded 1902. The verb meaning "to take the votes of" also is first recorded 1620s. Pollster is 1939. A deed poll "deed executed by one party only," is from earlier verbal meaning "cut the hair of," because the deed was cut straight rather than indented (see indent).

Example Sentences for poll

Please help us answer this important question by responding to our poll.

There were also doubts about the impartiality of the electoral commissions that organised the poll.

View the designs and let us know your favorite in the poll below.

The outcome of the national poll is in little doubt.

And the ethnic and political rumbling along the rift won't likely stop with a mere presidential poll.

Hundreds of readers have responded so far to the big-city mayor poll.

Funny how this happens after the presidential approval ratting poll released was the lowest since he took office.

One of these surveys claims to be the first genuinely global opinion poll.

Cast your vote in the poll on the right side of the review page.

The correctness of a scientific result or theory is never determined by a vote or poll.